What are some strange/unusual plants used for food? friuts, Veg., spices, etc. anything not typically found in your neighborhood safeway,...
friuts, Veg., spices, etc. anything not typically found in your neighborhood safeway, albertsons and those secure stores...
Used to make a salad beside dandelion greens and made dandelion wine.
Cactus.
Amaranth, cowpeas, sunnhemp, jute plant, spider flower, pig weed.
Answers: May apple fruit and ground cherry fruit. Both are poisonous until ripe. Crabapples are nasty but fabulous when turned into jelly. And next there is my favorite...the elderberry. These berries are also somewhat toxic to humans until ripe but when ripe they bring in the best jelly and wine. Got stung by six ground bees on this years foray into the bushes for the elderberries. There is also the fruit of the paw paw tree which tastes close to banana custard. You can also eat pallid sorrel which is more often thought of as a weed. It taste lemony. You can also poach dock weed which tastes for a moment like spinach. You can verbs up wild onions and leeks contained by the spring and these are wonderful. My daughter's yard within S Carolina is full of these things and the neighbors thought she was nuts when she pulled them up and ate them. Nasturtium flowers and daylily buds are honest fried.